Background: Injury to the ipsilateral graft used for reconstruction of the anterior cruciate
ligament (ACL) or a new injury to the contralateral ACL are disastrous outcomes after …

Context: Many coaches, parents, and children believe that the best way to develop elite
athletes is for them to participate in only 1 sport from an early age and to play it year-round …

The current manuscript has been adapted from the official position statement of the UK
Strength and Conditioning Association on youth resistance training. It has subsequently …

The Y-balance test (YBT) is one of the few field expedient tests that have shown predictive
validity for injury risk in an athletic population. However, analysis of the YBT in a …

Plyometric training (PLY) is a very popular form of physical conditioning of healthy
individuals that has been extensively studied over the last 3 decades. In this article, we …

Context: Most available data on athletic development training models focus on adult or
professional athletes, where increasing workload capacity and performance is a primary …

Objective: To provide certified athletic trainers, physicians, and other health care and fitness
professionals with recommendations based on current evidence regarding the prevention of …

Ligament reconstruction is the current standard of care for active patients with an anterior
cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture. Although the majority of ACL reconstruction (ACLR) …

Background There is a growing body of experimental evidence examining the effects of
plyometric jump training (PJT) on physical fitness attributes in basketball players; however …

Study Design Reliability study. Objectives To determine intrarater test-retest and interrater
reliability of the Functional Movement Screen (FMS) among novice raters. Background The …